WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Monday, January 23, 2012, 7 - 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM
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STOPPING THE NYPDâs Stop and Frisk
With
l Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness
l Jamal, Occupy Wall Street
l Mary Black, and Juanita Rivera, parents
l Leticia James, City Council member
l Jazz Hayden, Riverside Church Prison Ministry Campaign
To End The New Jim Crow

More than 700,000, according to NYPD documentation predominantly
African-Americans and Latinos have been profiled for stops and frisks, as
a result of what is now referred to as the ânewâJim Crow policies of policing
and inflicting state terror on communities of color. But, in response to the
increasing criminalization of communities of color is a burgeoning movement
prepared to, STOP Stop and Frisk as they say no to the new Jim Crow.
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Occupy Wall Street Flexes Its Muscles In The Fight For Heath Care
With
l Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
l Healthcare for the 99% Workgroup of Occupy Wall Street
l Save Our Safety Net Campaign
l Public Employees Federation, Civil Service Employees Assn.
l United University Professions

A coalition of labor and community groups outside the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel
protested investment banker Stephen Berger, Chair of Governor Cuomoâs
Health System Redesign Workgroup-Brooklyn, and key speaker at a breakfast
called âSolving Brooklynâs Hospital Crisisâ hosted by Crainâs New York
business publication. The Workgroupâs proposals, as outlined will negatively
impact hospitals in Brooklyn serving large numbers of uninsured patients, from
low-income communities of color and immigrants â for example to close
Kingsbrook Psychiatric Hospital, and in-patient services at SUNY Downstate.
Other facilities at risk include Brookdale, Interfaith, Kingsbrook Jewish, and
Wyckoff.
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Artist/Composer: Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Keywords: New York Police Department; Stop and Frisk; Governor Cuomo Hospitals; Brooklyn Hospitals; Stephen Berger; Occupy Wall Street

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